RE: [Leica] digital quality

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

That I can't tell you, as I don't do those kinds of comparisons....but my
guess is that it is essentially as apparent in digital color printing as in
traditional color printing - and I believe that color photography is where
one is most likely to really "see" the Leica/Zeiss differences...But since I
shoot black and white 95% of the time....

B. D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of MIKIRO
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 12:23 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] digital quality
>
>
> BD-
> You are absolutely right.  I admit that good digital printing
> visualises the
> lens characters you mentioned.  My point is whether we can see or "enjoy"
> character differences between, say, Summicron-R 50mm and Zeiss
> Planar 50mm,
> which I did in many if not all of the images in conventional prints.  The
> images from these two lenses are comparable (hard to fault!) in terms of
> sharpness, contrast, microdetails, ... Nevertheless they just
> have different
> looks. The "raison d'etre" of Leica R for me is solely this subtle and
> trivial (as you might say) difference that is essentially
> irrelevant to the
> content of photographs.  Is digital printing good enough in this
> particular
> regard?
>
> MIKIRO
>
>
> At 4:57 PM +0200 26/7/00, B. D. Colen wrote:
> >But Mikiro, good digital printing will most definitely show up many lens
> >characteristics, such as flare suppression, edge to edge sharpness,
> >contrast, light fall-off, etc. - micro detail may be a problem,
> but I would
> >argue - knowing virtually nothing about optics other than how to
> mount them
> >on my cameras :-) - that if you start with a really fine lens, your end
> >digital result will be better than if you don't.
> >
> >B. D.
> >
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